innovation

It’s been a good year for Walmart. The world’s biggest retailer recently reported its strongest quarterly growth in 10 years with same-store sales in the US up by 4.5%. Online sales also grew by 40% for the same period. Read…

Workers in Europe have adopted the Chairless Chair, and now similar technology is coming to the consumer market.A new company called Astride Bionix just launched a relatively low-cost wearable chair. The device, which is like a pair of kickstands for the…

Many business owners were skeptical about hiring someone who is homeless, and shared  stereotypes about the prevalence of mental illness and drug abuse. Kepp in mind that of the half million Americans that are homeless on any given night, an…

Finland has no standardized tests. Their only exception is something called the National Matriculation Exam, which is a voluntary test for students at the end of an upper-secondary school (equivalent to an American high school). Read more in bigthink 10…

Αcademics from the US University of Minnesota said the invention is a “significant step” towards the creation of synthetic eyes which could either restore sight for the blind or improve levels of sight for the visually impaired. Read more in…

Like immigrants into a new time, there are no signposts pointing the way forward. There is no how-to instruction manual. There is a lack of precedent, as yesterday’s lessons and experiences count for little in a brand new, different world.…

Labeling a person a consumer reduces them to a single activity in their life: buying stuff. People who like corn chips do not walk around saying, “I am a buyer of corn chips.” Read more in strategy-business Forget B2C and…

The ‘social’ in social capital means no single person owns these resource – they exist in the collective and are amplified by it. In a nutshell, we’re better together. The ‘capital’ means that it’s productive – it gets things done…

Spending money on research and development is a funny thing. It’s hard to tell what’s going to be a success, and sometimes the results aren’t valuable for decades. For example, Uber is investing heavily in driverless cars with the explicit…

Searching for “Design Thinking” on Google, we get 32,700,000 hits. But you don’t need to see more than the first few results to get the gist. Although there are quite a few definitions, the majority are based on the following…